An Accidental Programmer Exploring 19thC Literature

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Letters of 1916 is a public humanities project run by Maynooth University and directed by Professor Susan Schreibman. The project is creating a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written between 1st November 1915 and 31st October 1916. For my internship, I have been working on the project as a data scientist, analysing the collection. Following …

In this second blog post on the Marine Lives Three Silver Ships project, (see the first post here) I look at how to identify the folio pages in the HCA 13/70 Depositions which mention the three ships (Salvador, Sampson and Saint George). Processing and Calculating Raw Frequencies Using the .txt file downloaded in the last …

Within the larger Marine Lives project there are a number of smaller sub-projects which focus on specific areas of interest. One of these smaller projects is the Three Silver Ships project: The purpose of the project is to identify relevant references to cases involving the Three Silver Ships in the various depositions and papers and …

Marine Lives is a digital project to transcribe Admiralty court records dating from the 1650s. The project site is a wiki which enables transcribers to work collaboratively. The British Library has invited the project to be part of the UK Web Archive. The Marine Lives Wiki can be found here. The Summer Training programme is …